Adesso’s arancini are just umami bombs with luscious centers of pork ragu. And the house-made salumi, especially the duck, is head and shoulders above the rest of the house-made salumi in the Bay Area, daveena says.

Pizzaiolo also brings on an ultra-refined pasta e fagioli, with “silky handkerchief pasta and gloriously creamy beans in a scant amount of flavorful broth,” and a wonderful gin and tonic, using house-made tonic “spiked with a garden’s worth of herbs.”

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